The absolutely stunning 12thC Virtues triumphing over Vices font at St Peter's, Southrop.
— Fiona Chartres (@chartres_Fiona) February 13, 2026
In this scene patience is seen scourging wrath. I was particularly taken with the little buildings sitting on top of the arcade, the detail throughout is jaw dropping. #FontsOnFriday pic.twitter.com/iVTpeCgkPG
If one reads Tom Holland’s Dominion, David Bentley Hart’s Atheist Delusions, Sarah Ruden’s Paul Among the Peopke, or Kyle Harper’s From Shame to Sin…or Friedrich Nietzsche, this is precisely the conclusion one reaches. Indeed, look at the life and philosophy of Michel Foucault… https://t.co/C7HpBtCerh
— Paul R. DeHart (@PaulRDeHart) February 13, 2026
The “La Marseillaise” scene in Casablanca (1942) still lands with staggering power. Many extras were actual refugees from Nazi-occupied Europe, which is why it feels so painfully genuine. pic.twitter.com/HV1WMAIP3Y https://t.co/zKD8VhzP9q
— cinesthetic. (@TheCinesthetic) February 12, 2026
The icelandic cat who eats those who are not wearing their new clothes.
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 14, 2026
The Jólakötturinn, or the Yule Cat is a monstrously large creature from Icelandic folklore that is said to roam the snowy countryside during Christmas, with a particular appetite for anyone who has not… pic.twitter.com/2A3OWjkHKv
Europe is moving west - most countries that used to be communist have shrunk since 1989, while all countries that weren’t communist have grown.https://t.co/Y3D33yOMsl pic.twitter.com/dhRkQNewdI
— Stefan Schubert (@StefanFSchubert) February 13, 2026
The Beautiful Librariansby Sean O'BrienThe beautiful librarians are dead,The fairly recent graduates who satLike Françoise Hardy’s shampooed sistersWith cardigans across their shouldersOn quiet evenings at the issue desk,Stamping books and never looking upAt where I stood in adoration.Once I glimpsed the staffroomWhere they smoked and (if the novelsWere correct) would speak of men.I still see the blue Minis they would driveBack to their flats around the park,To Blossom Dearie and red wineLeft over from a party I would neverBe a member of. Their rooms looked downOn dimming avenues of lime.I shared the geography but not the worldIt seemed they were establishingWith such unfussy self-possession, norThe novels they were writing secretlyThat somehow turned to ‘Mum’s old stuff’.Never to even brush in passingYet nonetheless keep faith with them,The ice queens in their realms of gold –It passes time that passes anyway.Book after book I kept my wordElsewhere, long after they were goneAnd all the brilliant stock was sold.
75th anniversary today of a heroic battle you've probably never heard of, the Battle of Chipyong-ni - "the Gettysburg of the Korean War" - where an American Regimental Combat Team and French Battaillon de Coree held off and defeated what had seemed an invincible Chinese Army. pic.twitter.com/2KtbUxvH7m
— Alberto Miguel Fernandez (@AlbertoMiguelF5) February 13, 2026
Taking the leaves off strawberriespic.twitter.com/HehaSJ11WP
— Massimo (@Rainmaker1973) February 13, 2026
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